Are there any verified methods of smtp transfer for use say amongst a
limited group of organizations to supplement the situation that Mr.Weiss
has pointed out.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pete Weiss
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 9:10 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: lost messages
>
>
> At 13:49 05/10/2004 Monday, Hiler, John wrote:
>  >I spoke with a FOLUSA rep last week, who indicated that as
> many as  >threemessages were sent to FOLUSA-L list but never
> made the distribution.  >I checkedthe archives to find two of
> them in the archives. Another  >message, sent Monday, did
> make the distribution, but not the archives. Is  >there any
> way to audit listserv to determine what messages it has
> >received, distributed and archived? This problem has been
> persistent  >enough to warrant investigation of alternative
> MLM tools for FOLUSA (and  >maybe the INFOTRAC2000 list as well).
>
> As far as I can tell from reading a decade's worth of Daily
> Error Monitor logs, email delivery is not 100% reliable.  And
> in the past year, it is growing more and more less reliable
> due to spam and viruses.
>
> This is not a LISTSERV problem per se.
>
> /Pete
>